Merry Christmas

So yet another year of Racing draws to a close at the Faversham Off-Road Car Club and as always we like to end with a bit of a Party and to give everyone the opportunity to let their hair down a bit.

Praying to the God of Crossovers to ensure there would be neither carnage or cheating… Oh well, you did your best
Food preparation well under way…

 

The crowds are gathering…

We decided to give the Endurance a year off this year and opt for a simpler points based team race format. I have a feeling though that the Endurance will be back next year… 😜The heats were all a bit mixed up with 2WD, 4WD and SCT all in together and the teams were chosen at random. The teams were:

Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4
Elliott Matthew Ed Nathan
Dave George Mark Darren
John Jon Alan Nail
Kyle Harpreet Luke Mickey
Jeff Sam Jamie Callum
Mark Bob Jeremy Tom
Adrian Les Graham Matt
Bradley Lee Kai Ben
Verner Hattie William Nick
Ian Elliott Evie Alfie
Jake John James

There were 2 Rounds of Racing with 7 heats in each and drivers were racing for their teams. The top finishers for each team in each race scored points (10, 8, 6 & 4). It actually made for some pretty close scoring with all for teams level after the first 6 races. Quite remarkable. Round 2 though would see one team making a break for victory and that team was Team 3 so congratulations to you guys for a well deserved win

Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4
Round 1
Heat 1 4 8 10 6
Heat 2 10 6 4 8
Heat 3 4 8 10 6
Heat 4 8 6 4 10
Heat 5 6 8 10 4
Heat 6 10 6 4 8
Heat 7 6 4 10 8
Round 2
Heat 1 4 8 10 6
Heat 2 8 10 4 6
Heat 3 8 4 10 6
Heat 4 8 4 6 10
Heat 5 4 8 10 6
Heat 6 8 4 6 10
Heat 7 6 4 10 8
Total 94 88 108 102

You can’t have a Christmas meeting without Alan having his say…

Speech!

 

He did have one very important thing to say though and that was to say Thank you and Farewell to Lisa. She has run the tuck shop for 3 years but is leaving us for Pastures new. Thank you for looking after us so well Lisa 😍

Farewell Lisa. Thank you for putting up with us for so long 🙂

 

Motley…
… Crew

 

The big event of the night (apart from the food and drink…) was of course the Raffle. There were some cracking prizes on offer and a serious amount of tickets were bought. Congratulations to those that won something and better luck next time to those that didn’t.

 

Lots of Lovely Prizes!

 

Raffle Time!

So that’s it then and all that remains for me to say is Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at the club and a reminder that there is no racing next week but we will be back on the 4th of January 2017 where we will very much be looking forward to both you and your shiny new 2017 BRCA licenses! 😎

Cheers,

Jon.

Winter Series Round 3

Winter Series Results Updated

Today was Round 3 of 6 of the 2016-2017 FORCC Winter Series supported by Schumacher Racing

Supporting the FORCC Winter Series

The were 42 drivers spread across the 2WD, 4WD and SCT classes and as always there were some great battles throughout the field and tasty hotdogs for lunch 😍. The track was a little different with 2 matted sections and a central tabletop but it flowed very well and and great to drive on.

Below are the overall winners after 3 legs from each final:

2WD C Final (Bradley 2nd, James 1st, Evie 3rd)
2WD B Final (Alan 2nd, Dave 1st, Ian 3rd)
2WD A Final (Ed 2nd, Kyle 1st, Andy 3rd)
4WD A Final (Matthew 2nd, George 1st, Matthew’s Dad 3rd)
4WD B Final (Hattie 2nd, Kai 1st, Jeremy 3rd)
SCT A Final (Alan 2nd, Andy 1st, Diff 3rd)

We look forward to seeing you all for Round 4 on the 15th of January 2017 🙃

I’ve managed to get through a whole post without mentioning BRCA renewal… Oh, dammit!

Week 11

Results Updated

BRCA Renewal due – 16 days left…

Join online now!

www.brca.org

If you absolutely have to join with a paper based application then you’ll need to print the form off from the brca website and post it to them yourself. Do not bring it to the club… The form is here: https://www.brca.org/485-2017-brca-membership-form-pdf

Revised Calendar

18/12/16 – Winter Series Round 3

21/12/16 – Christmas Team Meeting – Team races, Free buffet, Christmas Music and lots of festive cheer 😍. As usual, we’re putting out an appeal for donations to the Christmas raffle. Large, small, rc or alcoholic… It’s all good to us 😋. We also like to see festively decorated drivers and cars!

28/12/16 – No race meeting – The hall is now unavailable 🙁

4/1/17No 2017 BRCA Membership, No race!!! You have been warned…

 

Week 10 – The Twelve Trucks Of Christmas

Results Updated

So this week saw the year-long Short Course Truck championship draw to a close and as if that wasn’t enough, this week there were 12 trucks in 1 heat. It was quite a thing to behold with only minimal damage to both marshals and the venue 😉 I filmed round 1 and I’ll upload it when I get a spare 5 minutes.

With the championship now over, it only remains to say congratulations to Dave Andrews for winning the championship, Martin Reeves for second and Tony Bronger for third.

End of an Era?

Our friends over at Maritime Racing have posted this message:

Maritime Racing News

URGENT NEWS

Dear Racers

It is with a sad heart that I have to informing you that as of 06/12/16

The Historic Dock Yard informed Maritime Racing with Notice on both TC and Off Road tracks
this is due to development of the build to be used as office.

The first part of the development will be started at the TC Track

The time scale we have been given is very small window for the closing date

TC Track last meeting will be 23rd February 2017

Off Road Track last meeting will be 28th March 2017

The above dates will not have any effect on race nights or dates for now
until the closing date

It has been an honor for the Maritime Racing Committee past and present
to serve you with your racing needs over the years

As yet we don’t know if they will try to relocate to a new venue or close for good but we wish them all the best with whatever the future holds for them. They will be sorely missed in the Region in both the on and off-road communities.

Week 9

Results Updated

track_forcc_20161130The temperatures may have dropped but it hasn’t cooled the racing at the FORCC 😃.

BRCA Renewal due – 31 days left…

www.brca.org

Christmas/New Year Race Schedule:

7/12/16 – Truck Week

14/12/16 – Normal Meeting

18/12/16 – Winter Series Round 3

21/12/16 – Christmas Team Meeting – Team races, Free buffet, Christmas Music and lots of festive cheer 😍. As usual, we’re putting out an appeal for donations to the Christmas raffle. Large, small, rc or alcoholic… It’s all good to us 😋.

28/12/16UPDATED – No race meeting

4/1/17No 2017 BRCA Membership, No race!!! You have been warned…